AFP reports.  A common theme of the stories coming out of Canada is that this is “importing” U.S. “dirty tricks” into Canada.

I spoke to a Canadian reporter over the last few days about these allegations, and it appears that some Canadians tend to believe that U.S. elections are rife with such tricks.  However, as I argue in chapter 3 of The Voting Wars, while such tricks (such as the New Hampshire phone jamming case or the New Black Panthers incident in Philadelphia) have been verified (unlike most allegations of impersonation voter fraud), true voter suppression incidents are: (1) relatively rare; and (2) relatively unlikely to influence the outcome of elections because (a) they are bone-headed/ham-handed schemes and (2) the counter-publicity they generate helps the other side get out the vote.